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- From: steveh@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US (Steve Harding KA6ETB)
- Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
- Subject: Re: Installation near Palo Alto
- Message-ID: <7F3iwB1w165w@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 21:00:53 PST
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- Organization: The GRAFex Company
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- tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates) writes:
-
- > Well, I found out what the radio facility is sitting next to Hiway 101
- > next to Palo Alto... I had posted elsewhere on just what this was..
-
- If this is the parcel I am thinking of, I believe that it also used to
- be the site of a VLF ground wave transmitter. Part of an experiment
- in communications with ships at sea and coast to coast transmissions.
- Super super power.
-
- > It is used for maritime communication..I suspected this, as my front end
- > overloads with CW and I suspected it was from this installation as I
- > drove by it every day. I thought maritime communication was modern
- > in these times and I suspect that other aspects of maritime comm's use
- > up to date transmission modes...but CW appears still in use and extremely
- > cheap though slow.
-
- You haven't listened to some of those ship operators pound brass. Some of
- the old timers have been clocked in excess of 100 wpm. Also, CW seems to
- be able to get through when other modes of communication can't.
-
- Altho I am an amateur radio operator, I am not a CW buff. I am awe struck
- by anyone who can copy and send over 30 wpm.
-
- ]...[
- > The City of Palo Alto would like to buy the property, but the owner
- > wants over 500k while the city has had the property appraised at around
- > 350k I think.. now there is a fight between the property owner and
- > the city about the duck pond in front.. interesting bit of info I
- > thought.
-
- Seems to me that $500K is cheap for that parcel.
-
- s
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